Jennifer Hubert's Blog, page 37

Devil's Kiss by Sarwat Chadda

You think your after school job sucks? Try being fifteen-year-old Billi SanGreal for a day. After facing down mean girls in the cafeteria and sleeping through most of her classes, Billi has to go home to her London flat, don some chain mail, and head out into the dark to stake some undead with her [...:]

Hold Still by Nina LaCour

"My best friend is dead, and I could have saved her." Caitlin was devastated when her BFF Ingrid committed suicide. Now she struggles with overwhelming feelings of guilt, wondering if there was anything she could have done to halt Ingrid's gradual and largely secret descent into depression and pain. When she finds Ingrid's last journal [...:]

Refresh, Refresh by Danica Novgorodoff, Benjamin Percy and James Ponsoldt

"We didn't fully understand the reason our fathers were fighting. We only understood that they had to fight…We could only cross our fingers and wish on stars and hit refresh, refresh, hoping they would return to us." Cody, Gordon and Josh all live in the same small town, and all have fathers who are fighting [...:]

Hate List by Jennifer Brown

Valerie thought she knew her boyfriend Nick. He liked Shakespeare and hated algebra. He was smart and funny and angry and sarcastic, just like Valerie. Even though they were both outcasts at their high school, Nick always made Valerie feel like she belonged. Valerie thought she knew her boyfriend Nick. Until the day he walked [...:]

I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President by Josh Lieb

If Stewie on Family Guy ever grew out of his diapers, he might turn out to be like Oliver Watson, the pudgy, angry, brilliant seventh grade narrator of IGUEIWYCP, who is addicted to his mom's grilled cheese and bent on world domination. Some kids dream of being king of the world—but Oliver actually is. He [...:]

Sideshow edited by Deborah Noyes

Regular readers of RR know I am big fan of the multi-talented Deborah Noyes and her horror-ific short story collections. In this latest macabre mishmash, Noyes asks authors to turn their attention to that object of endless fascination: the sideshow freak. The resulting ten stories are both striking and spellbinding. Step right up to the [...:]

Pop by Gordon Korman

Quarterback Marcus Jordan has a big problem. The team at his new school had a perfect season last year, so they aren't interested in some hot shot rookie hitching a ride on their air-tight winning machine. Especially Troy Popovitch, the resident star QB who doesn't like the way Marcus is eyeing his position–or his flirtatious [...:]

Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher

What if everything you believed to be true about someone was a lie? Well, not EVERYTHING. Just one thing. But it's the one thing that changes everything. High school senior and small town boy Logan Witherspoon has the rug pulled out from under him when smart, sexy, funny new girl Sage reveals after their first [...:]

Dani Noir by Nova Ren Suma

Thirteen-year-old Danielle Callanzano knows that real life isn't like the movies. If it was, she wouldn't be stuck in her boring upstate New York town suffering the after effects of her parents' recent divorce with no one to call and no cell reception even if she did. (Her best friend Maya moved to Poughkeepsie three [...:]

Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

When she was a little girl, Grace was dragged off the tire swing in her Minnesota backyard one winter by a starving wolf pack who had every intention of having her for dinner. But one yellow-eyed male stopped the feeding frenzy and saved Grace's life. So instead of being afraid of the wolves, she becomes [...:]